I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good:… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation,… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I remember when I first met Jason Reitman with the 'Whiplash' script; he quickly became a mentor figure who guided me through… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person -… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
